On Tuesday, Jan 24th, we watched a video from the website Ted.com. The video, "Elizabeth Gilbert on nurturing creativity," was inspiring. Elizabeth Gilbert, a writer, spoke about the fear upon creativity. She mentioned that there was a belief that creativity and suffering are linked together. She then discussed how she spent some time in researching other cultures in how they would deal with this problem. Going back to ancient Greece and Rome, they believed that creativity came from disembodied spirits, whom they referred to as a Genius. For awhile they had believed this until eventually, creativity became one's own. She gave several examples on why the idea of disembodied spirits seemed to work. One particular example of a singer who was driving with no pen or paper around him, a tune began to play in his head. The
Adjectives:
Uncanny - peculiar; mysterious
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